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It did not take long on Sunday morning for conservative CNN political commentator Scott Jennings to realize he had stepped in it when he claimed, "People don't want to feel joy" during his appearance on "State of the Union."

During the panel discussion moderated by host Jake Tapper, CNN analyst Kate Bedingfield described the just concluded Democratic National Convention as joyful, telling her fellow panelists, "She [Kamala Harris] is proving herself outside of her comfort zone. She has spent the last month since it was thrust upon her this moment where she had to rise to the occasion to take on the mantle of being the Democratic nominee, which is a huge moment and she's done it successfully."

"You've seen — you see momentum, you see people excited," she continued. "So this notion like joy isn't a strategy; joy is actually what people want. This is what they want to feel right now and they're feeling it from her. She's also laying out substantive policy proposals which she did in her nominating speech. And the idea that these two things are somehow mutually exclusive, I don't think that's true."

"The joy will continue until morale improves," conservative analyst Jennings quipped before adding, "People don't want to feel joy, they want to feel relief," which made Bedingfield laugh.

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"The economic anxiety is real and it is — and you can say inflation is down and I know that's what the Democrats are going to argue," he persisted as Bedingfield looked on incredulously.

"Not a single person who was bought a single thing in the last four years or in the last four minutes, believes that and I think you get in trouble in politics when you tell people something that does not match their lived experience," he concluded.

"So a Republican strategist says people do not want to feel joy," a laughing Bedingfield repeated before adding, "That's quite a message."

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In the midst of a wide-ranging interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham, CNN "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper blindsided the South Carolina Republican with a clip of Donald Trump telling a CBS reporter he doesn't listen to Graham's advice.

Brought on to talk about the current presidential campaign pitting Trump against Vice President Kamala Harris, host Tapper first pointed out that Graham has lightly criticized the former president for centering his campaign on personal attacks on Harris instead of addressing policy differences.

Donald Trump has long been backed by evangelical Christian voters, and as of May, the Associated Press reported that the ex-president's "support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians."

In an op-ed published by MSNBC Sunday, Minneapolis pastor Doug Pagitt — who also heads the nonprofit organization Vote Common Good — explains how Vice President Kamala Harris can win the evangelical vote this time around – and why it's possible.

On Sunday morning Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called out CNN host Jake Tapper for ridiculing Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats for saying the country would start a new chapter if she becomes president in November.

On CNN's "State of the Union," the host pointed to comments made at the convention and pointed to former president Barack Obama stating," America is ready for a new chapter" as he endorsed Harris

"I mean, she's the incumbent vice president," Tapper remarked. "Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. How can Democrats talk about a new chapter, turning the page, you guys are the ones writing the book?"

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"Well, you know that that's not true, Jake, because you know politics like I do," Booker shot back. "Right now, we see the MAGA Republicans in Congress killing all kinds of pragmatic policies that we need to get done on the most contentious issues."

"We had a bipartisan deal settled on by Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a right-wing Republican and Sen. Chris Murphy, a blue state Democrat and what killed that deal, what killed that pragmatic progress wasn't the sensible Republicans, but really people who were kowtowing to Donald Trump. His influence is egregious and incredible."

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According to a report from the Washington Post, Donald Trump's inner circle grew increasingly alarmed at his complacency during the Democratic National Convention and had to convince him to hit the road instead of spending his days playing golf and complaining.

With the Democrats sucking up all the media attention with a widely watched convention that set new standards for future productions, Trump "mused about staying home" where he reportedly golfed and grumbled about the direction the presidential campaign has taken since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden as the Democrat's nominee.

Donald Trump was up bright and early on Sunday morning and quickly took to his Truth Social platform to fire back at critics of his glitchy Thursday night phone call to Fox News after the Democratic National Convention concluded.

Moments after Vice President Kamala Harris concluded her acceptance speech to become the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential nominee, Trump was on the phone with Brett Bairer of Fox News taking potshots at this November opponent.

Late Friday, the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal raised the red flag that a Senate with a Democratic majority and Vice President Kamala Harris in the Oval Office after November will dismantle the 60-vote filibuster rule that has long stymied liberal lawmakers.

As the editors noted, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been boasting that a solid Democratic majority could mean that the rule will be "a goner."

In an interview this week, the Democratic leader noted that Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have kept Democrats from even bending the rules to help pass legislation and that, after November, "Well, they’re both gone.”

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That led the WSJ editorial board to lament, "This should put a chill into Republicans, independents, moderates, and swing voters. Democrats claim they merely want to bend the filibuster to protect abortion and voting rights. Yet that would break it for good. The pressure would be immense to add other exceptions, such as to restructure the Supreme Court, make Washington, D.C., a state with two Democratic Senators, or ban state right-to-work laws."

Noting that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has indicated she is on board with what would be a ground-shifting change, the editors continued, "All of this raises the stakes for the Senate races this year. West Virginia aside, Democrats are leading now in every tossup race except for Montana. And there the incumbent, Jon Tester, is barely trailing his GOP challenger, businessman Tim Sheehy. Mr. Tester is refusing to endorse Ms. Harris to cover his progressive voting record, and Mr. Schumer will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to keep that seat."

Until recently, the defining narrative of the 2024 presidential election was that 81 year-old President Joe Biden was too old to run for a second term in office. But now that Biden is out of the race, 78 year-old former President Donald Trump's increasingly unhinged public statements are now causing concern even for some of his biggest supporters.

In a recent report, the Guardian spoke with Trump supporters Joan and Billy Long, who drove from New York to Pennsylvania to watch the former president speak at a campaign rally. Joan Long told the publication that she's puzzled by Trump's response to Vice President Kamala Harris' nascent campaign so far.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) claimed she fully expects Donald Trump will once again try and tamper with the presidential election results in her state in November and that she will be prepared.

Speaking with host Katie Phang, Nessel, who gave a widely lauded speech at the recently concluded Democratic National Convention where she wished the conservative United States Supreme Court good luck prying "this wedding ring from my cold, dead, gay hand," was asked what she expects in November.

"How worried are you about Donald Trump and his allies trying to repeat what they attempted to do four years ago?" host Phang prompted her guest.

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"I think it is probably his number one strategy, honestly," she admitted. "I really don't see him making an effort to try to convert undecided voters. More than that, what I see is these efforts that are already in place here on the ground in Michigan to try to subvert the election through illegal means and, to really try to enlist as many Republicans on the ground as possible, whether those are poll workers, whether those are local clerks, whether those are party activists."

"I think that what we saw in 2020, you know, it is going to pale in comparison to what we are likely going to see in 2024 and, again, it is not my job to decide winners or losers. it is my job to defend the will of the people, whatever that might be," she continued. "But I can tell you this: if the will of the people here in Michigan is that they support Kamala Harris as our next president of the United States, you know, it is going to be tough."

"I don't think anybody should underestimate how hard we are going to have to fight to defend people's votes against an effort by the Trump campaign to subvert democracy here in Michigan and likely and states all across the nation."

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Donald Trump's inability to lay off the personal attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris could end up being a central reason he might falter in his bid to be re-elected in November.

That is opinion of popular commentator Kara Swisher who took part in a panel on CNN with host Chris Wallace on Saturday.

While covering a wide range of topics, Wallace — formerly a longtime host on Fox News — asked his guest, "Kara, are Trump's personal attacks undercutting, at the same time, he's trying to make an argument about her on policy?"

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"Yes, keep them coming, he looks like an idiot when he's doing them," Swisher replied. "Honestly, it's just he can't help himself and he doesn't know how to deal with her."

"It's really interesting to watch him trying to formulate an attack and it has to be personal," she continued. "And the other part is, I know this sounds crazy, but he talks about her looks a lot and everything with Trump is looks and it's creepy. And he's he thinks she's pretty and beautiful and he doesn't know what to do. "